[ale] Mostly OT but darn cute!

[Cliff Free]

Nothing to see here... please move along...

On 4/16/06, aaron <aaron at pd.org> wrote:
>
> On Sunday 16 April 2006 15:13, Brian Whigham wrote:
> > Aaron,
> > Perhaps you sacrificed your facts to come up with that awe-inspiring
> > literary device.  Either that or you were in a bigger, more ignorant
> > bubble than they are.  Latter-Day Saints don't practice polygamy.  No
> > one forces anyone to be baptized.  And no one brainwashes anyone unless
> > you define it as invitation to exercise one's agency or teaching one's
> > children what one believes to be true.
>
> First, I apparently need to point the obvious and note out that all my
> comments were delivered in jest to a silly OT post, thus the smiley faces.
> I
> hope anyone who understands this will please ignore the remainder of this
> reply, but for those that have decided to take a little penguin inspired
> silliness way too seriously...
>
>
> I can assure you that I have the facts underlying my jests entirely
> straight,
> having worked for several years in the Mormon owned CBS affiliate radio
> and
> television broadcast facilities of Salt Lake City, literally at the heart
> of
> the political propaganda ministries of the LDS Mormon-ey machine.
> (-: I guess I was their token open minded agnostic. ;-)
>
> Though it is no longer sanctioned in the mainstream LDS tenets, there are
> several active Mormon sub-cults that continue to promote and practice
> polygamy. This component of original doctrine became an especially
> pragmatic
> tool for the Mormon's westward migration from Missouri and settlement of
> the
> Utah valley. At the time, polygamy was an openly approved and, indeed,
> strongly encouraged practice, as the settlers desperately needed to
> populate
> their "promised land" rapidly if they were to wrest it from the native
> American tribes that already inhabited the region. While unmitigated
> demands
> for procreation remain a primary, subjugating edict for women under
> current
> mainstream Mormon beliefs, the practice of polygamy in service of this
> core
> precept was not officially renounced by the LDS leadership until 1890.
>
> As to indoctrination under dogmatic, authoritarian (and most often
> patronizingly patriarchal) belief systems, the practices of induction and
> "conversion" found within most any cult [aka religion] can be justly
> classified as brainwashing. This applies to jihadists, zionists and
> fundamentalists of any design, the only requisite being that they lay
> claim
> to the ultimately arrogant and impossible to substantiate doctrine of
> being
> the "master faith", something the LDS dogma most certainly does in the
> extreme. (-: As an aside, a Jewish friend of mine living in Utah, the land
> of
> Zion for Mormons, was often amused by the idea that it was the only place
> he
> could be considered a Jew and a Gentile at the same time! :-)
>
> > And I doubt the second threat to the penguins is true either.  Though
> > the average age of students at BYU (Provo, Utah) is probably not 30, it
> > was named the fittest college campus in the US by Men's Fitness magazine
> > (research by Princeton Review)
> > (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,168854,00.html).
>
> While the facts of obsession with sweets among the population of Utah are
> common knowledge, I'll readily admit that the joke about Mormon's being
> penguin shaped by 30 is based on personal observations and is not a
> clinically or scientifically substantiated theory. However, the "study"
> you
> quote (via link to fauxnews, no less) was essentially just an opinion poll
> questionnaire that is equally devoid of scientific evaluation.
> <http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1608/is_8_21/ai_n15674742>
> shows some of the other "winners to be:
>   [2] University of California, Santa Barbara
>   [3] Boston University
>   [9] University of Wisconsin, Madison
> (^: If the study had been based on actual physical evaluations, the
> University
> of Wisconsin, Madison, should have ranked number one, at least if one
> judged
> by the young woman I briefly dated from there... I just could NOT keep up
> with her triathlon training regimen! :^)
>
> I won't even get started on the willful ignorance and superstitions that
> keep
> Brigham Young University from having a medical school so that they could
> actually conduct a valid scientific evaluation of their student body's
> health
> or physical fitness.
>
> > I apologize if anyone invited you to be baptized while in Utah.  It's
> > obvious that they should have invited you to repent first.  My
> > invitation to you, REPENT!
> > not so respectfully submitted,
> > Brian Whigham
> > A non-penguin-shaped, Georgia-born, Georgia-raised Mormon
>
> :^)
> Thanks for playing, but I'm neither intimidated by or obligated to
> anyone's
> imaginary friends. With nothing to ever repent or regret in resurrecting a
> little reason and reality on an Easter Sunday...
>
> peace
> aaron
>
> > aaron wrote:
> > >On Sunday 16 April 2006 08:19, William Bagwell wrote:
>
> > >>Awwww widdle penguins in... sweaters?
> > >>
> > >>http://www.sltrib.com/ci_3713118
> > >>--
> > >>William
> > >
> > >;-)
> > >Yeah, they look cute now, but don't forget for a second that it is the
> > >freakin' Mormons that are knitting those sweaters. I grew up in Utah,
> so I
> > >know that the next phase of their plot will be to brainwash and baptize
> the
> > >entire flock. Then they'll unleash thousands of pairs of polygamy
> practicing
> > >penguins on the world to perniciously proselytize their propaganda on
> every
> > >doorstep! (Well, at least until the birds go extinct from every father
> trying
> > >to keep a dozen eggs from freezing...  or until the ice caps melt as a
> result
> > >of the human overpopulation promoted by all the suicidal "latter days"
> > >religious cults of the world.)
> > >;-)
> > >It just occurred to me that the Mormons may pose another bizarre threat
> to
> > >this precious (as in super cute) species of flightless fowl. Their real
> > >attraction to the birds may stem from observations that most Mormons
> end up
> > >shaped like penguins by the age of 30, primarily because sugar abuse is
> their
> > >only cult sanctioned vice. Extinction from diabetes could become a
> likelyhood
> > >if these poor penguins start getting Latter Day sweets with their
> Latter
> Day
> > >sweaters!
> > >:-O
> > >
> > >
> > >peace
> > >aaron
> > >
> > >
> > >
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